The Dryad Digital Repository

Chris Taylor (@chrisftaylor)for Todd Vision (@tjvision)

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Dryad Digital Repository

o Web address: datadryad.orgo Non-profit, incorporated in USo Operates internationally with more than 30 member

organizationso publishers, societies, government agencies, research networks, national and

research libraries. o Relatively young

o started w/ infusion of funds from NSF in 2007o online since 2009o incorporated in 2012o introduced revenue model in Fall 2013

The types of data we collect and how we acquire it

o Data associated with publicationso Science and medicineo Focus on biology and medicineo Started in evolution/ecology community as support for journal

data policieso Breakdown of file types we accept

o Text, spreadsheets, video, photographs, software code, compressed archives of multiple files

o Ordinarily, no more than 10GB of material are submitted for a single publicationo Larger data sets are accepted but will be subject to additional charges

o How do we acquire files?oUsers must registeroDOI, PMID or a journal-supplied custom URL to get publication metadataoEnter (small amount of) additional metadata, correct imported metadata, legal

signoffoAnd you’re done.

The services we provide

o Integration w/ journalso Curation/user supporto Archiving (e.g. CLOCKSS)o Download statistics (ImpactStory/PlumAnalytics)o Journal policy support (e.g., embargoes) and policy developmento Metadata syndication/APIs for discovery and retrieval

How we will interoperate with global research data

o Emphasis on long tail of research datao Generalist repository able to accept (more or less) anything

o Connect research data to ecosystem of scholarly communication standards

oMetadata obviously critical (DCI, EuropePMC, Elsevier, ODIN, etc.)